I have a bunch of folders in an external HDD and I want to copy a part of them. The folders have the following structure:
A001A A003A A004A etc... ...and all the folders contain similar directories e.g:
HHZ HH1 HH2 LHZ LH1 LH2 I need to copy all the directories (A001A, A002A ...) with the subdirectories (HHZ, HH1, HH2) but with only the directories with H initial (also every files in it).
How can I do that?
This should do the trick (assuming all the directories in the current folder are A*** directories):
cp -r --parents */H* destination/
You should obviously replace destination/ with your actual target.
If your pax supports the -0 option (and your find the -print0 predicate):
find . -path '*/H*' -print0 | pax -0rwpe /dest/dir/ Would copy all the files and directories that /H in their path.
If they don't but you can guarantee file paths don't contain newline characters, you can remove both 0s in the command above.
